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 ===Tom & Pepe===
-[[File:Tom_and_Pepe.jpeg|thumb|right|300px|Tom & Pepe (2014)]]In 2003, Tom Dougherty returned with Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey, this time to be featured as a solo clown in their newly formed one-ring Gold Unit&mdash;gleaming the ''[[Otto Griebling]] Award'' along the way (2007). He spent four seasons with the Gold Unit, and in 2008, he joined the much larger Blue Unit, where he was featured as the star clown of their latest production, ''Over The Top''. There Tom met and teamed up with [[Pepe Silva]], a very talented Spanish auguste with a strong European training. The chemistry worked well and after their two-year contract with ''The Greatest Show On Earth'', they decided to form a clown duet, and continue to work together.
+[[File:Tom_and_Pepe.jpeg|thumb|right|280px|Tom & Pepe (2014)]]In 2003, Tom Dougherty returned with Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey, this time to be featured as a solo clown in their newly formed one-ring Gold Unit&mdash;gleaming the ''[[Otto Griebling]] Award'' along the way (2007). He spent four seasons with the Gold Unit, and in 2008, he joined the much larger Blue Unit, where he was featured as the star clown of their latest production, ''Over The Top''. There Tom met and teamed up with [[Pepe Silva]], a very talented Spanish auguste with a strong European training. The chemistry worked well and after their two-year contract with ''The Greatest Show On Earth'', they decided to form a clown duet, and continue to work together.
 Their first appearance in Europe was at the [[International Circus Festival of Albecete]], in Spain, in 2010, where they made a very strong impression on the European circus community. European contracts followed, notably a season in France with [[Cirque Arlette Gruss]]’s production of ''L’autre monde'' in 2012. They also appeared at the [[International Circus Festival of Budapest]] in Hungary in 2013, at the [[Circo Teatro Price]] in Madrid in 2014, and at [[Circus Krone|Circus Kronebau]] in Munich in 2015. Today, Tom and Pepe work either separately as solo performers or together as a duo, both in the United States (where Tom still teaches occasionally) and in Europe.

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 ===Tom & Pepe===
-[[File:Tom_and_Pepe.jpeg|thumb|right|250px|Tom & Pepe (2014)]]In 2003, Tom Dougherty returned with Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey, this time to be featured as a solo clown in their newly formed one-ring Gold Unit&mdash;gleaming the ''[[Otto Griebling]] Award'' along the way (2007). He spent four seasons with the Gold Unit, and in 2008, he joined the much larger Blue Unit, where he was featured as the star clown of their latest production, ''Over The Top''. There Tom met and teamed up with [[Pepe Silva]], a very talented Spanish auguste with a strong European training. The chemistry worked well and after their two-year contract with ''The Greatest Show On Earth'', they decided to form a clown duet, and continue to work together.
+[[File:Tom_and_Pepe.jpeg|thumb|right|300px|Tom & Pepe (2014)]]In 2003, Tom Dougherty returned with Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey, this time to be featured as a solo clown in their newly formed one-ring Gold Unit&mdash;gleaming the ''[[Otto Griebling]] Award'' along the way (2007). He spent four seasons with the Gold Unit, and in 2008, he joined the much larger Blue Unit, where he was featured as the star clown of their latest production, ''Over The Top''. There Tom met and teamed up with [[Pepe Silva]], a very talented Spanish auguste with a strong European training. The chemistry worked well and after their two-year contract with ''The Greatest Show On Earth'', they decided to form a clown duet, and continue to work together.
 Their first appearance in Europe was at the [[International Circus Festival of Albecete]], in Spain, in 2010, where they made a very strong impression on the European circus community. European contracts followed, notably a season in France with [[Cirque Arlette Gruss]]’s production of ''L’autre monde'' in 2012. They also appeared at the [[International Circus Festival of Budapest]] in Hungary in 2013, at the [[Circo Teatro Price]] in Madrid in 2014, and at [[Circus Krone|Circus Kronebau]] in Munich in 2015. Today, Tom and Pepe work either separately as solo performers or together as a duo, both in the United States (where Tom still teaches occasionally) and in Europe.

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 In 1989, he co-founded "Theatricks" with actress and director Julie Herber&mdash;a professional touring clown company based in Baltimore, where in 1995 he began teaching clowning at the Baltimore School For The Arts. Meanwhile, Tom had also become a clowning instructor at his alma mater, Clown College. In 1997, he was the first American clown to perform in Vietnam, in Hanoi’s first International Circus Festival, where he was awarded the Silver Medal. That same year, he joined the [[Big Apple Circus]]’s celebrated Clown Care Unit®, bringing much needed comic relief to hospitalized children.
-Tom Dougherty returned to the circus ring in 2000-2001, where he starred with [[Jeff Gordon]] in the Big Apple Circus production of ''Clown Around Town'', a tale vaguely inspired by Aesop’s ''The Town Mouse And The Country Mouse'', in which Tom was the country clown visiting his clown cousin in Manhattan. Following that, he resumed his stage activities, and also had a stint with the already-fading [[Circus Chimera]] in 2002, where he was their featured clown while serving as the circus’s Artistic Director.
+Tom Dougherty returned to the circus ring in 2000-2001, where he starred with [[Jeff Gordon]] in the Big Apple Circus production of ''Clown Around Town'', a tale vaguely inspired by Aesop’s ''The Town Mouse And The Country Mouse'', in which Tom was the country clown visiting his clown cousin in Manhattan. Following that, he resumed his stage activities, and also had a stint with the already-fading [[Circus Chimera]] in 2002, where he was its featured clown while serving as the circus’s Artistic Director.
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-[[File:Dougherty_2008.jpg|thumb|left|300px|Tom Dougherty (2008)]]Then and there Tom discovered that performing was his true calling, and in 1978, he went to study acting at New York’s Neighborhood Playhouse School for Theatre under Sanford Meisner. His interest in comics and animation naturally drew him to physical comedy ([[Buster Keaton]] was his main inspiration), which in turn led him to develop the idea of creating a one-man show on Shakespeare’s clowns. As fate had it, he saw in a newspaper that [[Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey]] was holding auditions for their [[Clown College]]: Tom didn’t know what Clown College was, but it seemed a perfect fit for his project and he decided to apply.
+[[File:Dougherty_2008.jpg|thumb|left|300px|Tom Dougherty (2008)]]Then and there Tom discovered that performing was his true calling, and in 1978, he went to study acting at New York’s Neighborhood Playhouse School for Theatre under Sanford Meisner. His interest in comics and animation naturally drew him to physical comedy ([[Buster Keaton]] was his main inspiration), which in turn led him to develop the idea of creating a one-man show on Shakespeare’s clowns. As fate had it, he saw in a newspaper that [[Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey]] was holding auditions for its [[Clown College]]: Tom didn’t know what Clown College was, but it seemed a perfect fit for his project and he decided to apply.
 He was accepted and studied there under the legendary [[Lou Jacobs]], among others. Said Tom: "Clown College [was] a life-changing experience. I had no idea what a clown was about. I had a very limited view. I was into theater…" Upon graduation (the year was 1979), Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey offered him a contract. Thus Tom Dougherty toured as a clown with ''The Greatest Show On Earth''’s Blue Unit for the next three seasons. It was a great learning experience: Tom had become a bona-fide clown, and he liked it!

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 * Video: [[Clowns_Baseball_BAC_Video_2000|Tom Dougherty in ''The Baseball Game'']] with [[Jeff Gordon]] and [[Valdis Yanovskis]] in the Big Apple Circus production of ''Clown Around Town'' (2000)
 * Video: [[Dougherty_and_Silva_RBBB_Video_(2009)|Tom Dougherty & Pepe Silva, piano warmup reprise]], at Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus (2009)
-* Video: [[Dougherty_and_Silva_RBBB_Video_(2012)|Tom Dougherty & Pepe Silva, clown reprises]], at Cirque Arlette Gruss (2012)
+* Video: [[Dougherty_and_Silva_Gruss_Video_(2012)|Tom Dougherty & Pepe Silva, clown reprises]], at Cirque Arlette Gruss (2012)
 * Video: [[Dougherty_and_Silva_Price_Video_(2014)|Tom Dougherty & Pepe Silva, clown reprises]], at Circo Teatro Price in Madrid (2014)

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 File:Dougherty_"Water_for_Clowns"_(2011).jpg|Tom Dougherty & Lucy with the NY Goofs (2011)
 File:Jesse_Jeske_and_Tom_Dougherty_(2011).jpg|Tom Dougherty & Jesse Jeske with the NY Goofs (2011)
 File:Tom_Dougherty_%26_Pepe_Silva.jpeg|Tom Dougherty & Pepe Silva at Circo Teatro Price (2014)
 File:Tom_and_Pepe_Portrait.jpeg|Tom Dougherty & Pepe Silva at Circo Teatro Price (2014)